PrintIPDS Guide - Evidenced Activities
Professional level
Selecting your activities
You are encouraged to select, as far as possible, activities that would form a natural part of your work. Ideally evidence of their completion should be possible through outputs from that work (minutes, executive summaries etc).
However, IPDS is about development, so undertaking an activity, from the list provided, that would extend your role and stretch your abilities, should be seen as a development opportunity and you may need to produce evidence specifically to meet the evidence requirements
List of Professional Stage Activities (PDF 46kb)
Assessment criteria
When the assessor receives your portfolio he/she will assess each professional level activity as follows:
- Have you demonstrated that the activities you have chosen were appropriate, in
that they have
- been selected from the list of Professional Activities (PDF 46kb)
- meet the needs of the organisation and/or your own particular development needs?
- For each activity have you included a ‘planning’ and ‘application’ section which makes it clear to the reader how you both planned and carried out the activity?
- Is the evidence you have provided appropriate and sufficient to demonstrate that you have carried out each activity? Advice on the appropriateness and sufficiency of evidence can be found on the IPDS pages of the website.
- Have you written reflectively on the experience and not just described the activity? Does this reflection focus on what you have learned and how this may influence your future professional behaviour.
Remember:
- Keep the focus on your role in the activity.
- Collect evidence as you progress through the activity.
- Once completed, you must write a reflective commentary on your experience of undertaking the activity.
- Your employer must provide a brief comment on each of the activities undertaken. Click here for further guidance.